Blog Post #1 10/7/2020 This week I have mostly been working on my website. I worked on finding many different pictures that show what each inquiry is about. I organized the website so that it would be easy for people to follow and find the information that I will be putting out. I worked on the journalism page more than the others because that will be the inquiry that I will be focusing most of my time on. I added all the pages that were required to have on the website and added my about me part in the website. I was hoping to get more research done this week but that did not happen. So next week I will focus on finding information and working on writing the information down to share with everyone. Next week I will focus more specifically on the journalism inquiry and not on the website as a whole.
Blog Post #2 10/16/2020 This week I did a lot of research, I worked on finding out how to write a good article. I also read a lot about what makes a good journalist. I read a lot of information from other journalists and there were a lot of articles that gave advice for people looking into becoming a journalist. I also started looking at the website that I will be creating my magazine on for the final product. I played around with the website to see how I wanted the layout to be. I chose some new photos to use for the magazine. Next week I hope to start figuring out what I will write about and further my work on my magazine.
Blog Post #3 10/23/2020 This week I worked on my magazine. I found pictures and worked on the layout of the magazine. I decided this week that I would start writing different articles. This week's topic was procrastination. I did a lot of research and found quotes that could go into my article. I read lots of websites and watched a ted talk that provided a lot of information. I spent the rest of my working time writing the article and editing it. I worked on my website, adding some more pictures and information. You can access the article here.
Blog Post #4 10/30/2020 This week when I was looking and thinking about what I could possibly write about next. I came across the question are high school students being worked too hard? I thought that's a great question so I went with it. During the process of researching for this topic I was trying to find current information but a lot of the studies that I found had been done more or less five years ago. These studies still provided me with information but I thought that with the pandemic and all that some of this information is probably a little bit different. I spent most of my time looking through different websites to find the most current information. I also worked on finding pictures for my magazine that could go along with my article. The rest of the time I worked on writing the article, I did not get the whole thing done but I do have a rough draft and I plan on finishing the rest of the article next week.
Blog Post #5 11/6/2020 This week I continued to work on the same article as last week. I looked at my work I sent the article to one of my peers so I could get a second opinion on the writing. My friend looked at it and edited some of it and I added some of the changes that she made. After I go a second opinion on my article I added the final touches and finished it off. I also worked on finding more images that I can include in my website to make it more interesting. You can read the article here.
Blog Post #6 11/13/2020 This week I found a new and different topic to write about. Something that has always been interesting to me is script writing, I like to think about the behind the scene of shooting a movie, so I decided to write and article about the things that go into writing a script. I started the week off by doing research and finding different websites that game the information I wanted. Then I started writing the article. By the end of the week I was re-reading the article and adding some things and going through the presses of editing the article. By the end of the week I had finished the article and learned a lot about something that I had never thought about in depth. You can read the article here.
Blog Post #7 11/20/2020 This week the topic that I decided to write about what how learning a new language can benefit you. I did a lot of research for this topic, so my first day of working was trying to find good information to write with. I spent a lot more time researching this week because there was a lot of information to get through for this topic, some of the information I found was very repetitive, and I wanted to make sure that I was using reliable sources for my information. Once I had gathered all the facts I started writing up the rough draft of my article. So far I have not started off my writing with a rough draft but this week I decided to because I thought it might be helpful and help me with the writing process. Also this week I did some peer editing of others websites for there legacy projects. This week I also started looking at canva for another place to make my magazine, so I worked on setting up the layout for my articles and inserting images that I want to use for each article that I have written.
Blog Post #8 12/4/2020 This week I realized that some of my past articles where not all cited the same, so I went though all of them and looked and cited all of the souses in MLA format. It took a while to go through all of them. The next thing that I did was I looked through all of my peer feedback and looked and fixed the problems that was given. I also worked on the magazine none of the websites I have tried will let me put big amounts of text in it without ruining the layout of the page so I am trying out a new website that is allowing me to add the text but there is still a lot of work to do on that end. I want there to be lots of pictures and to have the front of the magazine done soon so I can work further on the layout and add all the articles I have written into the magazine.
Blog Post #9 12/11/2020 This week I worked on finishing up the MLA citations for each article. I looked at all the feed back that I had gotten on my website and I corrected and added what I thought needed to be fixed. I edited two articles and finished them. I added photos to the magazine and fixed the layout so that it looks better. I brainstormed ideas for other articles that I can write to add to the magazine. You can read How Can Learning a New Language Benefit You and Different Ways to Cook a Turkey
Blog Post #10 12/18/2020 This week I worked on writing a new article for my magazine. I have not fully finished it so next week I will edit it to make sure there are no problems or grammatical errors. Then I will add it in the magazine and find photos for it. Another thing I did this week was research for the article. I also brainstormed some ideas for other things to write before the final projects are due. I also continued to add some images to the magazine for each article.
Blog Post #11 12/23/2020 This week I continued adding photos to each article. I sent up the layout I want. I made sure that each page was set up the way I wanted it to be. Once I found all the photos I made sure they where all in the correct spot. I also added a spot for the new article that I am working on, so that when I finish it I can just put it where it needs to be. Along with finalizing the layout and finding the pictures I worked on editing the article that I'm writing. There are a lot of steps and research going into this one so it should be finished soon. Because this was a shorter week I did not do as much work as other weeks.
Blog Post #12 1/8/2021 This week I worked on the final touches to my magazine. I spent a lot of time on the final presentation. I added lots of photos and spent a lot of time organizing it the way I wanted to look. I added some of the information to the slides, but there is more to add. I spent a little time on the writing, I will work on that more next week.
Blog Post #13 1/15/2021 This week I continued to work on my slide show for my final presentation. I added a lot of information to the slides. I looked through my projects planner and my inquiry proposals to find a lot of the information I needed for the slides. I also continued to find different photos for each slide. Also with working on the slideshow I also worked on the layout for my magazine. I worked on editing the magazine and making sure that the layout is good and that there were no spelling or grammatical errors in any of the articles.